Quality & Continuous Improvement Leader - Drive Impact

Sealed Air Corporation; Hamilton; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Sealed Air Hamilton is seeking a Quality Improvement Leader to drive quality, food safety, customer satisfaction, and operational performance across the Hamilton site. Reporting to the Hamilton Quality Manager, you'll lead a small team, partner with manufacturing and cross-functional teams, identify opportunities, solve quality challenges, and deliver measurable improvements.

The role focuses on reducing waste, ensuring ISO compliance, and advancing a culture of quality excellence and continuous

Qualifications

• A tertiary qualification in Engineering, Science, or a related discipline.
• Experience in quality leadership within manufacturing, packaging, chemical, FMCG, or similar industries.
• Strong knowledge of quality systems and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Six Sigma Green Belt certification, or willingness to achieve certification within 12 months.
• Experience leading quality improvement projects.
• Strong coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality improvement initiatives across Hamilton operations.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement and customer focus.
• Coach, support, and develop team capability.
• Maintain quality management systems aligned with regulatory, ISO, and company requirements.
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective actions.
• Facilitate continuous improvement and Kaizen projects.
• Partner with manufacturing teams to improve quality performance and reduce waste, spoilage, and blocked stock.
• Support successful new product introductions.
• Act as the voice of the customer and support complaint resolution activities.

Skills

Quality leadership

Root Cause Analysis

Continuous Improvement

Stakeholder management

Coaching & Communication

Project leadership

MS Office

Education

Engineering/Science degree

Six Sigma Green Belt certification

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Sealed Air Hamilton is seeking a Quality Improvement Leader to drive quality, food safety, customer satisfaction, and operational performance across the Hamilton site. Reporting to the Hamilton Quality Manager, you'll lead a small team, partner with manufacturing and cross-functional teams, identify opportunities, solve quality challenges, and deliver measurable improvements.

The role focuses on reducing waste, ensuring ISO compliance, and advancing a culture of quality excellence and continuous